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F. C. TEMPLE BILL, BULLETIN, 0R POSTER HOLDER Filed March 31, 1924 Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

UNITED STATES FRANK C. TEMPLE, OF BRUNSWICK, MAINE.

BILL, BULLETIN, OR POSTER HOLDER.

Application filed March 31, 1924. Serial No. 703,251.

To all iii/10m it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK G. TEMPLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland a nd State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bill, Bulletin, or Poster Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to special supports, and has for its object the provision of novel means for holding bulletins, posters, bills or the like without the employment of the usual and well known thumb tacks, the device being capable of holding several sheets in superimposed relation if desired.

An important object is the provision of a device of this character which will be simple and inexpensive in manufacture, positive in action, efficient and durable in service and a general improvement in the art.

\Vith the above and other objects and advantages in view the invention consists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective vice,

Figure 2 is an elevation thereof showing it in the act of holding a sheet,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the awl detach-ed,

Figure 4: is a detail section on the line 1% of Figure 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings I have shown my device as comprising a. support formed preferably as a suitable block 10 of wood, cork or other material of any desired size and shape, which block may be equipped with any desired suspension means if preferred. At one corner the block is cut away as indicated at 11 for a purpose to be described.

Secured upon the block at some suitable point is a coil 12 formed from a single length of wire which is attached by having the innermost convolution of the coil formed with an extension 13 which is driven or otherwise embedded in the block. The outermost convolution of the coil terminates in an elongated open loop 14 which is offset with respect to the block as shown at 15 to facilitate handling, and this loop terminates in an extension 16 adapted to be forced into penetrating engagement through the sheets to be held and into the block.

view of the de- In case the wood is somewhat hard and the extension 16 cannot be forced thereinto, I provide an awl including a handle 17 carrying a prong 18. Ordinarily this awl is located within the cut away portion 11 of the block with the prong forced into the block at the end of the cut away portion.

To hold a bulletin or other sheet it is merely necessary to grasp the loop 1 1 and pull upon it sufficiently that the sheet may be inserted beneath the extension 16, after which pressure is applied to the loop to force the extension through the sheet or sheets into the block. If the block is too hard to permit this, the awl may be pulled loose from its resting place in the cut away por tion 11 and the prong thereof used to make a hole in the sheet and block for the reception of the extension 16. Obviously more than one sheet may be held as it is unnecessary to withdraw the lowermost one each time it is desired to post another.

lVhile I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention it is of course to be understood that I reserve the ri ht to make such changes in the form, construction and arrangement of parts as will not depart from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim:

1. A device of the character described comprising a supporting block, and a securing member mounted thereon and formed as a single coil having its innermost convolution secured to the block and its outermost convolution extended into an open loop constituting gripping means and terminating in an extension adapted to be forced through a sheet or sheets and into the block.

2. A device of the character described comprising a supporting block, and a securing member mounted thereon and formed as a single coil having its innermost convolution secured to the block and its outermost convolution extended into an open loop constituting gripping means and terminating in an extension adapted to be forced through a sheetor sheets and into the block, the securing means for the coil consisting of an extension at the end of the innermost convolution thereof penetratingly engaged in the block.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

FRANK C. TEMPLE 

